@bkcunningham Sweet Tomatoes Express isn’t a buffet like Sweet Tomatoes. You pay one price and then the person behind the bar puts it together (it’s still laid out with all the choices in a buffet style, but the person behind the bar is putting it all together, kind of like putting toppings on your sub at Subway or Publix). They measure out a certain amount of lettuce (choices of mixed greens, Spinach, iceberg, Romaine) I get a mix of different lettuce usually, and then walk down and tell them what to add to the salad. The salad is for two meals it’s so big. You can add a soup or mac and cheese for $2. I think the salad alone is $5.99, but it might be $6.99, I am drawing a blank on it right now. I almost never have a bad piece of lettuce in it. Dressing on the side which is plenty for the whole salad, sometimes a little extra. As long as I don’t put something in it that can get soggy, like those fried noodle thingies, I can keep it in my fridge a couple days and it is still perfect. Maybe longer, I never tried.
You can also get some of the same premade salads that Sweet Tomatoes has like the Asian one. It’s still one big serving, not buffet style. I almost like better being able to take it with me, although the selection of ther foods besides salad is more limited. The pastas at Sweet Tomatoes aren’t very good anyway. Only dessert worth anything is the ice cream, and I am not an ice cream person much anyway. Plus, I’m trying not to eat stuff like that. But, Sweet Tomatoes feels more like a restaurant, while the express is fast food feeling from the decor to the fact everything is served in plastic containers so it is easy to take it to go.